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bike tory posted:So how about that budget? Big tax cuts for everyone, no solutions to systemic problems.
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May 25, 2017 07:33
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Sure am looking forward to the extra $20 a week or whatever it is I will be getting (in April of next year - lol) that I obviously so desperately need instead of investing that back into our infrastructure.
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May 25, 2017 07:41
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I have since been informed that I'll have an extra $32 a week, not $20. I retract my previous snarky tone and am now looking forward to the massive house in Auckland I will now be able to afford.
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May 25, 2017 08:16
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That extra $5.12 a week is gonna go a long way. If I save for a month, and I can afford avocado on toast.
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May 25, 2017 08:20
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The Rabbi T. White posted:I have since been informed that I'll have an extra $32 a week, not $20. I retract my previous snarky tone and am now looking forward to the massive house in Auckland I will now be able to afford. How much avocado on toast is that? Just so it is units I can understand.
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May 25, 2017 09:36
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Depends on how good the cafe is, or if you go diy.
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May 25, 2017 09:40
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It's an incredibly unimpressive budget with very little to say about it beyond that it is clearly an election year budget.
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May 25, 2017 09:51
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That tax cut is going to get both me and the Mrs our own avocado toasts. Just to think, an avocado toast EACH. This covers it pretty nicely I think: quote:While polling suggests tax cuts were not a high priority, in reality they matter a great deal in voting behaviour. Delivering the tax cuts in an election year makes perfect political sense. https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/2...ews+Budget+2017
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May 25, 2017 09:52
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Feel like we're finally seeing the effects of first-term policies
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May 25, 2017 10:03
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bike tory posted:That tax cut is going to get both me and the Mrs our own avocado toasts. Just to think, an avocado toast EACH. https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-05-2017/the-rope-a-dope-budget-ben-thomas-reviews-budget-2017/ Why look at a somewhat balanced view of the budget, when Ben has a totally one-sided one? I know you read these forums occasionally, Ben. I am going to hit you with a choke slam next time I see you. (Not even really related to the article - I just think you're due one).
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May 25, 2017 10:27
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bike tory posted:This covers it pretty nicely I think:
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May 25, 2017 10:39
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The social investment approach could be great, but with the Nats it's just going to used to do ultra-means testing
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May 25, 2017 11:42
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"social investment" is also a way of talking about new forms of state welfare that doesn't cause right wingers to have a heart attack
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May 25, 2017 11:55
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11863232Average family: 'You get quite despondent even reading Budgets' posted:Kelly and Wayne Slattery, who pay $650 a week to rent a four-bedroom home in Botany, live on Wayne's base income of $92,000 a year plus bonuses - slightly above the median Auckland household income of $87,500. quote:The Slatterys will get a $20-a-week tax cut because of higher income thresholds for the two lowest tax brackets. But Wayne Slattery, who is in the top 33 per cent tax bracket, is unimpressed. Didn't know that we actually don't have tax brackets and that if you earn over 60k you suddenly have 33% tax on all your income. Thanks herald! Thanks average NZ family (who earns above the average auckland wage plus bonuses)!
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May 25, 2017 23:10
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Breaking news: Well above median income NZ family are morons
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May 25, 2017 23:25
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You can tell they're an average family because their single-earner brings in more than double-income homes.
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May 25, 2017 23:31
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There should be a law that in order to get an income in a higher tax bracket you need to demonstrate you understand how tax brackets work. Also any journalist who writes about taxation and doesn't show an understanding of tax brackets is exiled to the Auckland Islands.
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May 26, 2017 00:56
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Also $650/week for a four bedroom? Dude should consider himself lucky, that would barely get you a three bedroom in Wellington these days.
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May 26, 2017 01:07
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$20 will get you a top quality smashed avocado on toast, so I don't know why he's bitching that he can now afford to own a home.
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May 26, 2017 01:12
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ahah I was just going to post that stupid gently caress from the herald "When you get up to what I'm earning, it doesn't really give me anything, to be honest," he said. get hosed dude, your wife is in education and you probably hear every day about how some of the kids are coming in hungry and you still bitch over $20 a week
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May 26, 2017 02:30
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Jeff Sichoe posted:ahah I was just going to post that stupid gently caress from the herald She is a board of trustees chair in howick, 100% Nat voter who couldn't actually give a poo poo about hungry kids.
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May 26, 2017 02:40
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Jeff Sichoe posted:ahah I was just going to post that stupid gently caress from the herald The best part about it all is that the dude is loving poor - he is just too dumb to realise it. He's not even on 6 figures, the loving dolt.
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May 26, 2017 02:51
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Yup, that income in Auckland and you might as well be on the fuckken benny
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May 26, 2017 02:54
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megalodong posted:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11863232 That's some top notch maths right there too.
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May 26, 2017 03:15
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Varkk posted:There should be a law that in order to get an income in a higher tax bracket you need to demonstrate you understand how tax brackets work. I read this as Exiled to Auckland, and thought that seemed it way too harsh.
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May 26, 2017 03:15
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redleader posted:That's some top notch maths right there too. Then you see the byline... The Nuzillund Harold posted:Simon Collins is the Herald’s education reporter.
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May 26, 2017 04:02
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May 26, 2017 10:11
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I'm happy with my extra $60-something a fortnight finally my family will be able to afford booze
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May 26, 2017 20:59
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https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/868221872537649152 https://i.imgur.com/PgU8gkR.png
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May 26, 2017 23:47
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Truly the racist grandfather of NZ politics. But the abusive alcoholic kind, not the lovable bumbling kind.
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May 27, 2017 00:00
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Our very own Ed Balls.
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May 27, 2017 04:12
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May 27, 2017 10:21
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Finally putting the Right's narrative of them being bad at the economy to some political use.
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May 27, 2017 11:09
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exmarx posted:
I can't spend the 10 seconds required to correct your misleading Greens shitposts if there's no way to tell where it's even sourced from.
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May 27, 2017 12:49
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The Greens are supporting the budget, Labour are not. It was news a few days ago, just google it
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May 27, 2017 13:23
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https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/greens-and-nz-first-oppose-budget They aren't supporting the budget. They supported the low income tax threshhold bit specifically on the basis that a can of corn is better than nothing(and optics for low info voters)and Stuff et al blew it up into an opposition in shambles story that you guys bit on immediately.
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May 27, 2017 13:44
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I never took it as "opposition in shambles", I was disappointed that the greens are backing a regressive change to our tax brackets. I didn't realise they could back bits of the budget but not the whole thing though - I thought it was presented as a single bill?
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May 27, 2017 22:33
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bike tory posted:I never took it as "opposition in shambles", I was disappointed that the greens are backing a regressive change to our tax brackets. I didn't realise they could back bits of the budget but not the whole thing though - I thought it was presented as a single bill? Pretty sure it's split into about 10 parts, Vote Health, Vote Education etc.
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May 28, 2017 03:05
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And then aren't there seperate bills introduced later to implement specific parts as well? E.g the budget allocated the funds but then a later bill creates the legislation to actually do the program.
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